The "Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions

4:00 PM | View Event

28February

The "Standard" Model of Cosmology ... and Open Questions

Professor Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University)

Crow 204 | 4:00 PM

Experiments and observations over the last two decades have provided strong support for a "standard" model of cosmology that describes the evolution of the universe from an early epoch of inflation to the complex hierarchy of structure seen today. I review the basic physics, astronomy, and history of ideas on which this model is based. I describe the data which persuade cosmologists that (as yet undetected) dark energy and dark matter are by far the main components of the energy budget of the universe. I conclude with a list of open cosmological questions.

Math Colloquium

Math Colloquium

Erin Belieu lectures on the craft of poetry

8:00 PM | View Event

01March

Erin Belieu lectures on the craft of poetry

Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall 201 | 8:00 PM

Visiting Hurst Professor Erin Belieu is the author of Infanta, named a best book of the year by the National Book Critics Circle, Library Journal, and The Washington Post; One Above & One Below, winner of the Midland Authors Prize and the Ohioana Prize; Black Box, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Slant Six, named a top ten book of the year by the New York Times Book Review.

The graduate students of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis are pleased to present the next Graduate Student Art History Symposium, which will take place on March 2-3, 2018.

The theme for the graduate symposium is “More Than Sustenance: Food in Art.” The keynote address will be delivered by Deborah L. Krohn, Associate Professor, Director of Masters Studies, and Coordinator for History and Theory of Museums, Bard Graduate Center.

Performing Arts Department presents "August: Osage County"

Performing Arts Department presents "August: Osage County"

Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Andrea Urice

Edison Theater | 11:00 AM

February 23, 24 & 25 and March 2, 3, & 4

Edison Theatre

Call 314-935-6543 for tickets

August: Osage County is an uproarious and ferocious examination of an American family. Thrust together when Dad goes missing, the Weston clan takes off the gloves for some bare-knuckled, biting, boisterous family drama. The New York Times calls the play a " fiercely funny, turbo-charged tragicomedy." Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning, August: Osage County is a bold and exciting undertaking for the department.

August: Osage County is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.